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091764P.pdf 11/01/2010 United States v. Trinidad Villa-Gonzalez
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 09-1764
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha
[PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, and Wollman and Melloy,
Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law. District court did not err in finding that
defendant's initial encounter with the police was not consensual, as a
reasonable person in the defendant's situation would not have felt free to
terminate the police encounter and walk away; as a result, the statements
he made during the encounter were involuntary, and the evidence
discovered during the search of the defendants' home was inadmissible
fruit of the poisonous tree. Judge Wollman, dissenting.